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transmit

  • verb
  • trans·mit
  • trănsmĭt'

To send or convey from one person, place or thing to another.

Other meanings

  1. To spread or pass on (something such as a disease or a signal).

  2. To impart, convey or hand down by inheritance or heredity.

Synonyms

  • convey
  • communicate

Related words

  • cotransmit
  • mistransmit
  • neurotransmit
  • pretransmit
  • retransmit
  • teletransmit
  • transceive
  • transmitarray
  • transmittible
  • xenotransmit
  • press-to-transmit
  • push-to-transmit

Word history

From Latin "trānsmittō".

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “transmit” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.